Senior Platform Engineer

Posted:
9/5/2024, 10:23:29 AM

Location(s):
San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ Texas, United States ⋅ California, United States ⋅ Irving, Texas, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Overview

The U.S. Bank Spend Management Platform team is looking for a well-rounded senior engineer with strong experience in development and design of web solutions at scale. Join us to build beautifully simple and secure money movement experiences across the fintech family of products and help modernize our digital footprint. Ideal candidate will have strong technical knowledge, analytical skills, experience with Cloud development and distributed systems,

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs
  • Monolith & Microservices Architecture: Have good experience of working with monolith systems. Experience of microservices architectures to enhance system scalability, flexibility and reliability
  • AWS Cloud Services: Leverage AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.) for deploying and managing applications
  • System Design & Architecture: Participate in and contribute to the design and architectural decisions of the backend systems to ensure alignment with business goals and technical requirements
  • Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and low latency
  • Building & Managing System Observability: Leverage Spunk, SignalFX or similar products to build & maintain systems observability by creating dashboards, alerts and runbooks
  • Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code adhering to industry best practices and internal standards
  • Collaboration: Work closely with front-end engineers, DevOps engineers, product managers and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions
  • Testing & Debugging: Implement comprehensive test strategies including unit testing, integration testing to maintain & improve product quality and debug issues as they arise.
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve the existing codebase and development processes.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience 
  • Five to six years of relevant experience

Skills and Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in designing and implementing microservices architecture
  • Experience with AWS services and cloud-based application deployment
  • Experience working in an agile development environment and a customer-first mentality in service incident management, data analysis, and root-cause analysis
  • Ability to work independently yet fully collaborate with remote teams, technical leadership and architects at the company.
  • Continually grow your peers' operational and service excellence by serving as a thought leader and leader by example in applying best practices
  • Proficiency in Java, Spring boot and other spring modules
  • Strong understanding of RESTFul APIs, web services and asynchronous messaging
  • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL database (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes is a plus
  • Strong knowledge of design patterns, software architecture principles and best practices
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices is a plus

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

  • Basic term and optional term life insurance

  • Short-term and long-term disability

  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave

  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

  • Adoption assistance

  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

EEO is the Law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors. Applicants can learn more about the company’s status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal KNOW YOUR RIGHTS EEO poster.  

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $116,280.00 - $136,800.00 - $150,480.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Job postings typically remain open for approximately 20 days of the posting date listed above, however the job posting may be closed earlier should it be determined the position is no longer required due to business need. Job postings in areas with a high volume of applicants, such as customer service, contact center, and Financial Crimes investigations, remain open for approximately 5 days of the posting listed date.